F1 Visa Interview experience of Manu Ananthaneni at Chennai Consulate on 5-12-2014



Name
Manu Ananthaneni
Visa Type
F1
Consulate
Chennai
Interview Date
5-12-2014 1:00 AM
 Approved 
Conversation

My first attempt - http://www.myvisainterview.com/experience/cd4ff10fe39df0b7025afd407967444d

counter: 22


VO looks aged between 25-30(Male) fair and he looks as if he is in a good mood and smiling. he approved 1 F1 visa and 1 visitor visa(didnt even asked any question) and also rejected 1 F1 visa (this guy can't speak proper english) in front of me, This time I was not even that confident and just appeared as if am attending a casual interview and decided to answer any question in a general way, this made me not to be nervous and also look enthusiastic

Here it goes

VO: Waved his hand and smiled 
ME: "Good morning sir" (in a friendly way) 
VO: Didn't respond and gave a different look with a smile (may be he didn't listen)
ME: (I was just looking straight at him)
VO: "Haaa ok, give me ur passport"
ME: "Here sir"
VO: "Ur sevis please "
ME: "Here"
VO: looked at my sevis confirmation and said "I mean ur I20"
ME: smiled and gave him my I20
VO:"Ok is this your only admit?"
ME: "No sir, I got one more admit from University of South Alabama"
VO: "Then why did you chose this one?"
ME:"My UG Professors and my seniors have suggested me to go with this University instead of University of South Alabama, also I find the courses offered by this University are much better and close to my interests than the other one"
VO:"How many Universities have you applied?"
ME:"Four sir"
VO:"Can you name them?"
ME:" Sure, Lamar University, Lawrence Tech University, University of South Alabama and Northwestern Polytechnic University."
VO:"Do you happen to know any body currently at this University"
ME:"No sir, But I know a person who graduated from this university and got settled in India." 
VO:"How many courses are you going to take at this University"
ME:"I will be taking 36 credit hours in total, in the first semester am going to take 9."
VO:"Can you name them?"
ME:"Advanced Simulation, HDL(Hardware Description Language) and Microelectronics
VO:(He checked about some of these courses in his computer for about 30 seconds, 'I saw him typing hardware description on the keyboard' and I was just staring at him waiting for a question) and said "Ok how are you going to support your education?"
ME:"My parents will take care of that"
VO:"OH, what do they do?"
ME:"My Dad owns a large scale business and my Mom serves the government"
VO:"That issss good." (He turned his head up with a huge smile) and said "Ok Mister AM APPROVING YOUR VVVVVISAAAAA."(throwed my passport onto the basket behind him in a stylish way)
ME:" Thank you sooooo much sir, You totalllly made my day."

Then I came out of the embassy happily and this wasn't expected, I had decided to face any question and answered them as soon as he asked.
Just maintained the eye contact and I didn't smile much.



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UG:6.3 CGPA
GRE: 288
IELTS:6.0

University : Northwestern Polytechnic University, California